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by generalk 14y ago
It's not textbook entrapment unless they're conditioning people to want to commit acts of terrorism they wouldn't otherwise commit, but who cares? I do not want the people charged with protecting me to manufacture threats that justify their
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by generalk 14y ago
I've always found it useful to start writing my commit messages as if they begain with "When applied, this commit will..." ex: "Resolve #459." "Fix the PDF rendering issue on older clients." "Revert commit 1234567."
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by generalk 15y ago
> CSS to change colours and relative proportions is, I suppose, a concession that had to be made > to 'designers', but when you, as the page author, are having to concern yourself with > typography, then something has
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by generalk 15y ago
> But for guys like me who never use mass assignment, our > applications are not vulnerable by default, correct? Yes, if you never ever call `update_attributes` you're not vulnerable. This is, however, the most common
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by generalk 15y ago
The Rails Guides may discuss it, but this does not excuse the fact that for years the Rails core team knowingly shipped code (and generators that created) insecure by default code. No, this isn't a "Rails vulnerability" in the traditional
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by generalk 15y ago
This, to me, is the craziest part. I'm not condemning anyone, but it seems that when someone points out that your framework ships Insecure By Default code with absolutely no warning in the generated code, you'd take that seriously. Instead,
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by generalk 15y ago
The idea is that you can view all open applications as a row of "cards". You can easily swipe between them and select a different one, or flick one away to close it.
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by generalk 15y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you on the "lots of businesses use Office" point. It's true, and there's no getting around it. The point of the article (also of my comment) wasn't "Nobody ever needs Office again" or "nobody uses Office anymore." T
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by generalk 15y ago
> The assumption underlying this whole article is that you > don't "need" Office to do work. That somehow iStuff will > fill in your missing productivity suite. This just isn't > backed by reality. It's abso
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by generalk 15y ago
Nobody has to, but there's no harm in a little skeumorphism here and there for aesthetic reasons. We have a big walk-in fireproof safe in our office that long ago had the locking mechanisms removed, but the dial and lever are still in pla
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by generalk 15y ago
A local git branch is super-cheap, so there's hardly any downside to using them. The upside, even for a single developer, is the ability to work on multiple features/bugfixes simultaneously, and merge them into master only when they're re
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by generalk 15y ago
It's gotta come from the top. You can't dictate awesome culture like this. If the highest folks in the company update the wiki with useful information and point to it constantly, the newer hires will do the same. If someone dictates that th
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by generalk 15y ago
> However, I have trouble believing that all of these > ideals will work when you have a PM screaming at your > engineers to finish the internal CRM system [...] That's the point. The point of these things is that
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by generalk 15y ago
Where is the Twitter API held up as "exemplary REST"? I've usually seen Twilio's API as being the de-facto REST API. Not perfect, but pretty close.
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by generalk 15y ago
No, no. The point is that REST uses Hypertext as the Engine of Application State. You might have heard of this as HATEOAS. Ideally, your API is discoverable given the initial URL. If you return IDs, I have to construct URLs based on informa
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by generalk 15y ago
This is the core question of the Information Age. Companies like Google are in position to gather a boat ton of information about you if you're not actively avoiding them. With this information, they can provide "futuristic" services like
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by generalk 15y ago
I have no idea how the Xbox fits into this discussion, but I'll bite: Windows Mobile has had a decade of shitty products that have ruined its reputation. A full ten years , during which their competitors were essentially jump-starting th
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by generalk 15y ago
I think there are plenty of valid reasons to avoid MS technology that don't boil down to "because I want to be like these guys." If you base your infrastructure around Microsoft technology, you're essentially stuck in MSland. Of course, sin
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by generalk 15y ago
Nonsense. > Yes, I remember the Godaddy witch hunt I get the feeling you don't know what "witch hunt" means. Usually there's no consideration for the guilt or innocence of the subject. In GoDaddy's case they stated their suppor
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by generalk 15y ago
> Earth is actually quite an inhospitable planet as well. Perhaps in some light this may be true, but compared to Mars, Earth has a natural atmosphere that we can breathe, water we can drink, and produces plant life that we can
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by generalk 15y ago
I was beginning to have some minor wrist pain which seemed to be from mouse usage, but I switched to a magic trackpad and I'm not having any issues so far. It's not suitable for all tasks but for basic desktop mousing it's great, and gestur
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by generalk 15y ago
> Isn't the Google search bar just a (removable) widget? On the ICS launcher, no. It's a built-in on all home screens. Don't ask me why they ignored their nice widget system in favor of inflexibility, but there you have it.
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by generalk 15y ago
> Apple: Lets innovate here and add Siri > Google: Voice? > To control a phone? Lets do that! No, Apple acquired a company that was using DARPA-funded research from the SRI. Their software was in the iOS app store and
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by generalk 15y ago
I'm not bashing Fog Creek, you guys make cool products. When you decided to write an application in .NET, meant to be run on Windows, why did you also decide to use an in-memory datastore that doesn't run on Windows? That seems like a rea
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by generalk 15y ago
> Forking the project is less than ideal. Except when the author of the project says he won't roll Win32 support into mainline development. Then it's the only option, but it's an option available solely because the author open
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by generalk 15y ago
Let's be fair though -- Microsoft went ahead and grabbed the open-source code and provided a patch that makes it mostly work under WinAPI. In my book, that's pretty decent behavior.
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by generalk 15y ago
Antirez's decision is decreasing complexity and time for him and the people who help maintain his project. The code is right there . Any of your BigCorps are free to grab it and make it work. They are not free to demand the time of an op
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by generalk 15y ago
> He's also not going for it, because "use linux lol". Not > because it's hard, not because he doesn't have folks that > can add it, not because the problem extends beyond some > refactoring and #ifdefs and mak
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by generalk 15y ago
You think only guys watch porn?
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by generalk 15y ago
There was another "instant docs" site posted to HN a while back that had the same issue this one has: there's no delay between keyup and pushState(), so if I mistype and backspace a few times I've got a dozen entries in my history.

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